Projects
Empower Kenya
Powering the Kakenya Center for Excellence
Project Location: Enoosaen, KenyaSolar Liberty Foundation will be providing solar electrification to a girl's academy in the small Maasai village of Enoosaen, Kenya. The solar system will power a computer lab, lighting, and cooking needs for the girls who also reside at the school. In addition to improving the quality of the education, improved lighting in the dorms and around the dorms at night will improve security for the girls.
The Kakenya Center for Excellence is a primary boarding school for girls and is the first school of its kind in the region. The student-body is comprised of underprivileged Maasai girls from the surrounding area. The academy is located in the Keyian division of the Trans Mara district in Kenya and focuses on academic excellence, female empowerment, leadership and community development.
Education for girls in Maasai culture is inadequate. The priority is placed on educating boys because girls are expected to marry at the age of 13 and leave the family. School is seen as a bad investment for girls. The Kakenya Center for Excellence will provide girls in the region with the ability to become empowered to create their own future.
Cross Roads Spring
Solar Liberty Foundation is now working with the Crossroads Springs Institute project in Hamisi, Kenya on a project that is similar to other school projects. My fact does differentiate the Crossroads Springs project… the school at Crossroads Springs include some 300 AIDS orphans as the students. 90 children currently board at the school, but new dorms will soon be under construction which will lead to the ability to board more children.
Solar Liberty Foundation will be providing a solar electrification system that will allow for lighting for security, lighting for reading into the evening hours, power for cooking, refrigeration, and for their health clinic.
Solar Cooker Distribution
Project Location: Enoonsaen, KenyaIn addition to providing a solar electrification system for the Kekenya Center for Excellence in Enoosaen, Kenya, Solar Liberty Foundation distributed solar cookers to women in the village of Ensoonaen. Similar to our solar cooker distribution in Haiti, solar cookers are for families in need. The solar cookers enable people and families to safely cook food and to sterilize water. The two-pot design allows a large family or group to eat a cooked meal from a single solar cooking unit.
As in Haiti, much of the cooking must be done on an open flame using charcoal in the village of Ensoonaen. This forces many families to spend more money than necessary on expensive charcoal rather than to purchase food and other family necessities.
In addition to reducing costs to families, the solar cookers lessen the environmental impact and the health risks caused by the use of charcoal for cooking fuel.
